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Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] ethenet adapters not displaying in capture w indow

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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:44:19 +0100
Bill,

> For now I will hand type it in, but that sounds like 
> something we should fix.

As a more convenient workaround (especially when you suffer the enormous
device strings that Windows provides) you could manually edit the ethereal
"preferences" file to force Ethereal to use eth1

My "preferences" file contains the rather ugly line:
# Default capture device
capture.device: Intel(R) PRO Adapter:
\Device\NPF_{C0BD2FFE-AB2B-4F7E-B9A7-25B6B232EA29}

So does this help:
# Default capture device
capture.device: eth1


Alistair


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